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Turner, Harold

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Turner, Harold

August 21, 2026

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Col. Harold Turner, an El Paso resident and Army missile pioneer, was honored at Cape Kennedy as one of 25 Missile, Space and Range Pioneers. His career became linked to an errant 1947 test firing of a captured German V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range, when a rocket veered into an uninhabited…

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